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MissTica
3 years ago
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Hypertrophy may occur as the result of normal physiologic or abnormal pathologic conditions. The increase in muscle mass associa

ted with exercise is an example of physiologic hypertrophy. Pathologic hypertrophy occurs as the result of disease conditions and may be adaptive or compensatory. Examples of adaptive hypertrophy are the thickening of the urinary bladder from long-continued obstruction of urinary outflow and the myocardial hypertrophy that results from valvular heart disease or hypertension. What is compensatory hypertrophy?
Biology
1 answer:
sasho [114]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

Compensatory hypertrophy is an increase in size of an organ or tissue after the organs and tissues are either damaged, removed, or cease to function.

Explanation:

Hypertrophy is the term used to describe an increase in cell size. If the enough number of cells in some organ hypertrophy, the whole organ will also  hypertrophy.

Compensatory hypertrophy is an increase in size of an organ or tissue after the organs and tissues are either damaged, removed, or cease to function. It can take place in a number of human organs and tissues such as the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the spleen, the lungs, the pancreas etc.

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